Filesystems are meant to be case-sensitive, and yes, URL's are as well. It's an abomination that Windows and old-style Mac filesystems are not. You need to keep track of that in your code. 'a' and 'A' are just as different as 'a' and 'b'.
-Rasmus On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Rich Hutchins wrote: > I've had a web site under development on my Win2k box at home. I built and > tested everything with PHP 4.2.2 and Apache 1.3.24. > > Now, I have transitioned everything up to my host who is using a Linux box, > PHP 4.2.2 and Apache 1.3.26. > > One of the pages I designed has code that retrieves a list of thumbnails > from a directory name passed into the page then embeds a hyperlink to a full > size version of the thumbnail. Incidentally, the full size version is in the > same directory as the thumbnail and has a very similar filename: > tn_000001.jpg and 000001.jpg (guess which one's the thumbnail). > > Here's the problem: > When I run the page on the web host's server, the link to the full size > image dies. I've tracked the problem to the case of the linked filename. > Basically, unless the filename in the href matches the case of the target > file, the link dies and I get that nice, little red X indicating the link to > the image is broken. > > For example, the target image DSC000001.JPG _MUST_ be referenced in the href > as: href='../path/to/resource/DSC000001.JPG' If I reference it as > href='../path/to/resource/dsc000001.jpg' the target image won't show up. > > I have temporarily resolved the issue by designating the filename used in > the href as upper case using the strtoupper() function, but I can't believe > that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be done. > > What I'd like to know is does the Linux server introduce case-sensitivity > issues? It doesn't seem to matter with the elements of the path, just the > target filename. > > Help is appreciated. > > Rich > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
